Re: Formatting CDs

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:20 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:43:10 -0500
> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Format allows you to use the CD-RW disk as if it was a hard disk or a
> >> memory stick to copy files on to it with the cp command or erase using
> >> the rm command.
> >
> > I don't think you can do that with CD's.
> 
> Sure you can.  It's usually referred to ask "Packet Writing".  There's an
> old Sourceforge page for a project to bring support to Linux
> (http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/).  I don't know what the current status
> is, though.
Formatting and Packet Writing are not the same thing . 
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